Joseph
B “Joe” Scott Scott was an outfielder whose career in the Negro
Leagues spanned 20 years. A leadoff hitter, Scott played with
the Chicago American Giants, New York Black Yankees, Pittsburgh
Crawfords and the Memphis Red Sox. He had played at Wrigley
Field on a high school team in Chicago, earning the
distinction as the first black to play at Wrigley.

He was given an engraved baseball bat by his teammates on the
Memphis Red Sox in 1942 congratulating him for an astonishing
.714 batting average during a season cut short when he entered
the Army.

Scott served as a staff sergeant.
While based at Wright Field, Ohio, he played baseball for the
Wright Field Kitty Hawks against the Pittsburgh Pirates
in 1944. Scott later served
in Europe
with the 350th Field Artillery, 46th Brigade of the US Army. He
returned to baseball after receiving his discharge and retired
in 1956 to become a truck driver.

Joe Scott is now 86 years old and lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was “drafted” by the Milwaukee Brewers in the Negro Leagues Player
Draft, held prior to the Major League draft at Disney's Wide
World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Florida
on June 5, 2008. Each Major League club drafted a surviving
former Negro Leagues player, who represented every player who
did not have the opportunity to play baseball in the major
leagues.